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>> the early years of the '70s in music was sad because you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> this small gatherings are only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire -- the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. >> there will never be another beatles, never. >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers. no knowledge nothing like that. i lost my old band, or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven it's easy if you try ♪ >> for so long you waited for the beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped the music they
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would come up individually would be that good. >> i no longer have to -- oh, the beatles need an album. you and paul better go write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. i just write when i feel like it. >> you know, you have even been called the dragon lady who broke the beatles apart. >> please give her credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made since we broke up. she did it. >> the fact is that yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles. money broke up the beatles. business broke up the beatles. the desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier and heavier beatle these days, respectfully married. and when the kids come to his concert these days, they don't scream, they listen.
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>> the significant thing is john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact that they were both deeply in love with a woman. >> mccartney went home and made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. >> this is just the mock-up, folks. >> the new album. >> it's going to be called ringo's reviewer. >> i sell records, and it doesn't matter if i've been in the beatles or not. if they like the record, they'll buy it. >> ringo, who to this day people dismiss way too much, has tremendous success in the '70s. and george harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova on an album called "all things must pass." mae grybe thtest beatles' solo album of all. ♪ i don't need a passport >> over the years i had such a lot of songs i wanted to do.
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but i only got my quota of one or two tunes per album. >> were you held down by the other fellows? >> well, very subtly, yes. ♪ ♪ >> i would just like to thank you all for coming here. you all know it is a special benefit concert. ♪ >> ravi shankhar went to george harrison and said a terrible thing is happening in bangladesh and what can we do? that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done. >> the concert for bangladesh was the granddaddy of all issue-themed concerts. not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> it got dylan out of hiding. it put two beatles on the stage again. unparalleled at the time, and it may still be unparalleled. ♪
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[ cheers and applause ] >> a great deal of music of the '70s was people who succeeded in the '60s, finding new ways to express themselves in the '70s. >> have you any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it has? >> because we stay together i suppose. >> for a few years, the rolling stones had taken a lot of casualties. >> even brian felt that he was not going to be around for that long. not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for like where do we secure our foothold now? ♪ ♪ >> 1971, the rolling stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france. and record this record. "exile on main street." in a very hot, uncomfortable, muddy sounding studio.
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♪ >> that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. and i remember reading the review saying this was like a debauched album, i remember saying, i don't even know what "debauched" means, but i need to get some of this debauchery stuff. ♪ >> having come out of the '60s, which was its own animal, the '70s had to show enough skin, shed the old one. ♪ ooh, yeah >> i was never very confident of my voice as a singer. i thought rather than just sing
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them which would bore the pants off of everybody, i would like to kind of portray the songs. ♪ i turned myself and faced me >> david bowie has been a game changer. he has taken the promise of rock that the beatles kicked off and taken it all sorts of interesting places for others to follow. ♪ ch-ch-changes ♪ turn and face the strange ♪ time may changee but i can't change time ♪ ♪ i said that time may change me but i can't trace time ♪ at whole foods market, we believe in food that's naturally beautiful, fresh and nutritious. so there are no artificial colors,
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this year i took some time off from touring and went off on some adventures of my own. and this is kind of a -- a letter back home. ♪ ♪ ♪ ooh california oh california i'm coming home ♪ ♪ oh make me feel good rock 'n' roll band i'm your biggest fan ♪ ♪ california coming home >> you look to the horizon that you want to move toward. and that horizon was here in l.a.
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>> that's where the record companies were. there was lots of sun. >> the way i got to california is really simple, in a '57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. >> virtually nobody was from southern california. they're all drawn to the light. and the light is the troubadour club. >> things happened gradually until we played the troubadour in los angeles which holds 250 people. it just happened on the first night. >> every great songwriter i can think of came through the troubadour club. jackson brown, j.d., henley and frey, linda ronstadt, joni mitchell and james taylor. the big sea change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. >> is it difficult to reveal it constantly to so many people. why do you do this? >> i feel an obligation to people and to myself to share myself maybe as honestly as i can. ♪ i left my folk and friends
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with the aim to clear my mind out ♪ ♪ well i hit the rowdy road and many kinds i met there many stories told me all the ways to get there ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ so on and on i go ♪ the seconds tick the time out ♪ ♪ and there's so much left to know ♪ ♪ well i'm on the road to find out ♪ >> everyone was just trying to do whatever came into their head. >> in the early days, paul and i we wanted to be the group from england. goffin and king were very big these days. >> we didn't know who the mysterious mr. king was.
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>> we had no idea who the people were, the mysterious mr. king was. wrote the songs, chains the beatles did, i'm into something good. part of the british invasion. we did discover this remarkable woman, carole king. >> carole king made the transition from being behind the scenes woman to a star in her own right. ♪ i feel the earth move under my feet i feel the sky tumbling down ♪ ♪ i feel my heart start to tremble ♪ ♪ whenever you're around >> carole king is the embodiment of what happens. because in the '60s she is trying to write hit songs for other people. then in the '70s with "tapestry," the definition of an album of self-expression. let me go into my house in laurel canyon and tell you about my life. >> after church you always went out for pancakes. if you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girl's cars, you know what you are listening to? "tapestry." ♪ >> there were a lot of very important women who were some of
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the most significant writers and contributors to music at the time. >> we are going to do a song written by john david sausser one of my favorite california songwriters and one of my favorite singers. it's called "faithless love." >> she was in many ways my greatest collaborator. i became a professional songwriter because of the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. ♪ faithless love like a river flows ♪ ♪ raindrops falling >> for my money, linda is still underrated just for sheer singing power and style and emotion. ♪ and the night falls in like a cold dark wind faithless love ♪
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♪ like a river flows >> there have been articles and things that identify me with the l.a. sound, me, jackson brown and the eagles. we need some new blood in this town. we're starting to get stale. ♪ ♪ but you love to love her >> the original fleetwood mac was a four-piece full on blues band. >> an english band that became the dual citizenship band. they were as american as they were british. ♪ in all your life you have never known ♪ ♪ and never been taken by the wind ♪ >> we had an album out, two years previous to joining fleetwood mac, called the bigging ham nicks. nick really liked the music.
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they asked us to join. ♪ rihanna >> fleetwood mac, first, stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. ♪ freedom >> describe being rich and famous in california. >> this is it, kids. ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ♪ forever ♪ ever ♪ >> the records sometimes bore an audience. they're not going to have another hit. or this one isn't as good as that. >> record companies, like frothing at the mouth, the imaging of the band was becoming a whole thing. so we were getting ready to make rumors. with everyone falling apart. ♪ if loving you isn't the right to do ♪
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♪ how can i ever change things that i feel ♪ >> the band is five people, five very independent, quite strong minded, quite stubborn individuals. ♪ if i could baby i'd build you my world ♪ >> two lovely couples, john and chris married. their marriage was on the rocks. and stevie and lindsey may have well have been married. that all was falling apart. ♪ you can go yourwn way ♪ go your own way ♪ you can call me under the lonely day ♪ >> we were testifying. and "rumors" became the church. ♪ [ cheers and applause ]
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>> three years. >> see you went to grab it right away. snatch it right out of my hand. >> michael was precocious, he knew he was cute. you would watch him go from that to commanding a stage in front of 15,000 people. amazing. ♪ ooh baby give me one more chance ♪ ♪ one two three ♪ oh darling i've been trying to let you go ♪ ♪ >> the only american group to have four consecutive number one records. ♪ oh oh oh ♪ i want you back >> for the first time, young black kids had their beatles. >> you don't know. the jackson five. >> that's us. that's no jive. >> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown
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hitsville system. motown was a unique place. a lot of record companies were run by businessmen. we had a music man at the helm. berry gordy. he was a songwriter. he wanted to make music for the world. >> ironically he was trying to make black music to cross over to the white world and ended up being the creator of the best black music ever. >> he created a machine where you take the artist, polish them up. make them a great package they can play the "ed sullivan show." and kill. >> back in the '60s, marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. he was clean, svelte. all that changed in the '70s. >> marvin wanted to compete at a high level. why can't i make a record like the beatles? i'm selling records like they sell. why can't i have that artistic expression? ♪ punish me with brutality ♪ talk to me ♪ so you can see
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♪ what's going on what's going on ♪ ♪ yeah what's going on ♪ tell me what's going on ♪ ooh >> marvin gaye was affected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. he is hearing all these stories about what is going on over there. seeing the protests here, and it changes him. he holds up a mirror to america. look at yourselves, america. >> he is talking about the war, poverty. he is changing into an artist in a way that berry gordy is not super happy about. ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong they do ♪ >> initially he did not want marvin to do "what's going on." >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening, and here you now have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war. that could ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government.
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♪ yea i want to know what's going on right now ♪ >> ultimately when he agrees to put out "what's going on," berry tells marvin, okay, if you are right, i'll learn something. if i'm right, you will learn something. and, of course, as berry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say, so, they put you in one category. they say, he is a soul artist. that's all they expect for you to sing. that's all they want you to sing. that's not true. soul is being able to express yourself. >> stevie wonder went to berry gordy, and he negotiated his creative freedom, and he used every bit of it. ♪ very superstitious ♪ writing's on the wall >> stevie wonder making some of
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the greatest records anyone has ever made in popular music in america, back to back to back. ♪ writing's on the wall >> it's the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from half court with your eyes closed. oh, he made it. he's going to do it again. oh, my god he did it. and then suddenly -- songs in the key of life. ♪ ♪ you believe in things you don't understand ♪ ♪ >> what the beatles did in the '60s i feel stevie wonder was the person to do that for music in the '70s. ♪ >> hi there, welcome aboard. you are right on time for a beautiful trip on "the soul train."
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what's your pleasure and what's your treasure? bet your bottom we got them, baby. >> "soul train" finally offered america its first view of afro centricity. a new idea to say black is beautiful. >> we ran home from church to see "soul train." it was the one reliable place to see the artists that you loved. >> there is no question that "soul train" broke out a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences that they never performed for. ♪ >> ten years before he did the moonwalk, michael jackson debuted the robot in 1973 on "soul train." >> people had done the robot before. but there was a way he did it that it was faster. it was sharper. and it was street.
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'60s. the music so many thought too loud, vulgar, somehow dangerous to our morals. rock has not only refused to go away, it has become an institution. ♪ heart was a big deal because in the decade dominated by a type of rock 'n' roll that rhymes with rock and begins with a c, but won't go on further, they guys and sceed on their terms. >> the stuff from the '60s, that's way too hippy. now we have to up it a notch. ♪ ♪ >> the audience had come to expect a better standard of performance. a better quality of lighting and sound and staging. they have come to expect a show. ♪ we still have time and i still defy
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a troublemaker on a high ♪ >> the groups became more theatrical. they realized just giving them the music isn't enough. we have to give them something to look at. >> more naked people, more misbehavior, more over the top stuff going on. just, more. ♪ oh ♪ no time >> playing stadiums was too unreal. it would just be a sea of faces into infinity. ♪ with your sweet bag of lies ♪ crazy crazy crazy ♪ crazy on you >> stadium tours put a lot of people together to hear your music at the same time. what they also do is force the musicians to play to the back of the hall. >> in the '70s that distance between the performer on stage
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and that audience grew. if you went to any big arena rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here. and this sort of iconography of the rock star his huge figure. ♪ crazy, crazy on you >> it was bound to happen, but it comes as a shock nevertheless. in a poll taken by a leading pop music magazine in england, the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group in england these days is called the led zeppelin. >> in their 20s, they're rich, powerful, temperamental, and pampered. they're led zeppelin, the group on tour and in the vernacular of the biz where being big is nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, the zeppelin uses a chartered 707. the kind of plane president nixon uses.
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♪ the president's plane doesn't have an organ nor a 15-foot mirrored bar or in private quarters two bedrooms and a fireplace. >> i'm a bit upset it doesn't have a pool table on board. apart from that, i think this is about the best way to travel. >> americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that's $700 million more than the whole movie industry grosses from ticket sales in one year. about three times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. >> i'm telling you rock 'n' roll is no different than ibm, xerox, sara lee, chevrolet, supply and demand. the same business. >> rock 'n' roll had been a gritty novelty business. it was not the center of the world in the '50s and '60s. in the '70s, it becomes the main event. it has repercussions in all sorts of positive and negative ways. >> the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million. now the gross of the tour is in
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the region of $11 million. so, yeah, it's a living. >> it was so decadent and over the top and money just -- whoo -- being thrown against the wall. >> feel like a hypocrite, if you are eving the idea of young people, bouncing off the ideas of young people. taking young people's money and taking it and putting it in your pocket. really what you are is a middle-aged family man. it is only the hypocrisy that i'm worried about. >> bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock 'n' roll by going back to basics. >> using elements from the past that were sort of being discarded at that point. ♪ every day you sweat out on the streets on the wrong way ♪ >> using a sound that was not on the radio and was not mainstream rock. ♪ ♪ on a highway now
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♪ stepping out over the line ♪ whoa >> bruce springsteen created his own counterculture. it just speaks exactly to the american spirit. you couldn't hit it on the head more than bruce springsteen did. ♪ baby we were born to run ♪ yeah, yes we were >> "born to run" was a statement in the middle of the '70s. the cover of "time" and "newsweek." >> bruce didn't like it at the time. me, on the other hand, my friend is on the cover of "time" and "newsweek." this is so cool. >> when "born to run" comes out in 1975, it is the desire to escape the claustrophobia of the 1970s. it is an anthem to save your soul. i work overtime when i can get it.
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i thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. >> mancuso is one of the guys who took the art form of playing the records and how he curated the records. he may play isaac hayes' record. he might play a salsa record. it wasn't so much about a style as it was an aesthetic of dancing. >> you have all kinds of people here. you have people who are dancing. you can hop up and down. you can get high. you can stay here all night. >> why are people dancing again? i wish i knew. but i'm glad it's happening. ♪ >> what we now know as disco really starts with a band called the tramps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea of four on the floor with eight in the high hat. so everything is, bum, bum, bum. ♪ burn baby burn
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>> that's the sound of disco. ♪ burn baby burn ♪ burn baby burn >> i loved disco. i always loved dance music anyway. whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. the melody. >> george moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful volleyball vocalists. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. and they make some of the biggest record of all time. ♪ ooh love to love you baby ♪ ooh love you love you baby >> "love to love you baby" was four minutes of singing. 14 minutes of -- a lot of not singing. ♪ oh love to love you baby ♪ oh love to love you baby >> i always wondered for the life of me was he just in the
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booth, more passion more -- >> actually i shooed everybody out of the studio, switched the lights off, made sure the tape is running, and i said, okay, let's do it. and i think she did it in 10 minutes. ♪ oh >> the donna summer records were some of the biggest records of all time. and they kicked off a revolution. ♪ i want to do it with you >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed america's latest craze is disco dancing. that's dancin' without the "g." >> fluffy, where have you been? ♪ i want to put on my boogie shoes and dance with you ♪ >> what they generate with the records, we are talking about an estimated 4 billion, with a "b,"
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$4 billion a year. >> i remember really being upset about this word disco. it was r&b music to me. i felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and weren't giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. >> to bring that sound in that's great. one, two, three, four. >> the beegees always liked r&b and soul. i always thought it was a pop band with r&b leanings. >> the beegees were pop stars, they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. ♪ stayin' alive ♪ stayin' alive >> this is the scene outside a new york disco called studio 54. this is the place that's in with the disco crowd. >> i have been to goat ropings
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and space shots, been in a lot of strange places and seen a lot of strange things. but nothing stranger than studio 54 at the height of its popularity in the '70s. >> it's where you come when you want to escape. it is really escapism. >> in the front door of that spot was insane. i sometimes would walk by to watch the people not get in. because that was fun too. >> oh, you are not shaved. no way you can get in. it doesn't matter if you are not shaved. just go home. >> you had to be selected. you had to be chosen to get in. >> we can't let in everybody who wants to come in. i wish we could. ♪ oh freak out >> the great chic, go to studio 54 to get in, and they don't. so they write a song. ♪ i guess you heard about the new batch craze ♪ ♪ listen to us i'm sure you will be amazed ♪ >> it was kind of a dis for the
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studio 54 who rejected them. the part where they say "freak out" actually began as something else. ♪ freak out >> it went from something off to freak off to being freak out. ♪ just come on down to the 54 find your spot ♪ out on the floor ♪ oh freak out ♪ so chic ♪ freak out >> probably the best thing that ever came out of studio 54 was that song. >> disco was a revolutionary force. funk marries disco and it leads to hip-hop. >> it's 1979. i heard chic's "good times" come on. i kept hearing somebody talk over the song. ♪ you don't stop ♪ bring it
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♪ and me the groove and my friends are going to try to move your feet ♪ >> what's great about this song >> what's great about the song, that's where hip hop gets its name from. >> we didn't know the name of the song was "rapper's delight." everybody goes, hip, hop. >> whaefeverybody goes, what's hip hop song? the first to break the top 40. >> rapper's delight opens this incredible door to the last new american art form which is hip hop. eve was born to move. over the course of 9 days he walks 26.2 miles. that's a marathon. because he chooses to walk whenever he can. and he does it with support from dr. scholl's. only dr. scholl's has massaging gel insoles that provide all-day comfort to keep
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i'm gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. ♪ kick out the jams mother [ bleep ] ♪ >> detroit, 1969 is where punk was originally born. ♪ it's all right the motor city five and iggy and the stooges release two pioneering albums that indicate there's a new style of music coming back. it's a garage rock. it's minimalist. it's aggressive. it's loud and it's very often obnoxious. ♪
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>> punk rock was so fing scary to us because here we are with our big majestic songs and here comes punk with their, like -- ♪ >> the ramones get started as a reaction of everything else that's going on. people see them and go, this is the answer. ♪ hey, how, let's go ♪ >> here to see how great rock 'n roll is supposed to be done. >> how is it supposed to be done? >> no pyrochnics, no phony showmanship. just pure rock 'n' roll. pure good stamina. ♪ >> just real and raw and there's no crap involved, as opposed to
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the standard schlapp we hear on the top 40. >> the ramones were part of a wider new york scene. >> you had people like patty smith. >> i'm an artist. >> the new york dolls. >> the dead police. >> rock 'n' roll, anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> i belong to the generation. >> richard hell was one to cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> he was the king of the punks. the safety pin thing, for instance, is his. it's pretty clear that he invented that. >> punk in the united states is a musical aberration, statement of sorts of what music is and how it ought to be played. in england, punk rock is not a musical statement. it is a social one. >> if punk has a home territory, it's here on kings road in the middle of london, the same street that launched the miniskirt and the swinging '60s. >> what's this like? >> nothing.
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>> there isn't any future for a kid now. i mean, there isn't. >> there's an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of young people behind it. ♪ london calling through the faraway towns ♪ ♪ war is declared and battle come down ♪ >> you are said to be a political group. >> yeah, i've said it. it's true. >> if it's jobs, maybe we'd be singing about love and kissing or something. >> the clash, musically, is the best of the lot. doesn't sound like traditional punk but doesn't sound like anybody else but the clash either. ♪ i have no fear ♪ ♪ i live by the river ♪ i never felt so much >> punk was i think a kind of wide umbrella and the wider scene included people who were a little bit more complex in their musical performance style.
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people aren't going to buy something that you call punk. they might buy it if you call it new wave. >> what's your thoughts on punk rock? >> i think it's better to just call it a new wave, really. i think by defining it as punk you're automatically putting a boundary around what's possible. i think fans likealking heads excellent. >> talking heads was the ultimate college band and they did a sophisticated spiky music that reflected who they were and particularly reflected the fascinating individual that david burn would emerge to become. >> i thought i'd write a song about urban guerillas from the point of view of their daily lives instead of a point of view about their politics. ♪ this area of new wave music is where the stars of the 1980s are going to come from. ♪ >> what makes the '70s so special is that there's still a
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sense of my yafty, the innocence that music could really make a difference in your life. ♪ this ain't no party ♪ this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ i ain't got time for that now ♪ >> you pick any genre you like and the best music made in that genre is the 1970s and you'll have a hard time proving me wrong. >> what was great about a me decade is it allowed the greatest artist of our times to do some of their greatest work because they were really exploring. that's as deep as popular art ever gets. ♪ this ain't no party ♪ this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ i love to hold you ♪ i love to kiss you ♪ i ain't got time for that now ♪ ♪
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did someone put up a lot of money to have the democratic headquarters infiltrated and, if so, who and why? >> justice will be pursued no matter who's involved. >> do you have information implicating president nixon? >> i'm sorry, i have no comment. >> the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire the special prosecutor. >> that is the definition of tyranny. people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> i don't think there was ever any discussion that there wouldn't be a cover-up. >> cgrs must move ahead with imhment proceedings. >> there can be no whitewash at
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